The Mermaid

‘The Mermaid‘ is a drama by the brilliant Russian poet, ‘the sun of Russian poetry,‘ playwright and prose writer A. S. Pushkin (1799–1837). The Miller‘s daughter Natasha is left by her beloved Prince and marries another, rich girl. In desperation, Natasha rushes to the Dnieper and turns into a Mermaid... The work is a mandatory part of the school curriculum. Based on this play, A. Dargomyzhsky wrote the opera ‘The Mermaid‘. Pushkin is known as the author of many outstanding works: ‘The Queen of Spades‘, ‘Ruslan and Lyudmila‘, ‘Eugene Onegin‘, ‘The Gypsies‘, ‘Poltava‘, ‘The Bronze Horseman‘. ‘The Little House in Kolomna‘, ‘The Prisoner of the Caucasus‘, ‘The Song of the Prophetic Oleg‘. During his lifetime, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin earned himself a reputation as the greatest poet of Russia, whose work influenced the development of both Russian and world literature. The greatest merit of the brilliant poet is also that he became the creator of the modern Russian literary language.